Word: spared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimated 1.3 million new businesses opened their doors in 1991, up nearly 9% from 1980, when 1.2 million start-ups were launched. More than half the new enterprises are sole proprietorships or microbusinesses with no more than two employees, typically operating out of a garage, basement or spare room. In most cases the entrepreneurs made the choice to drop out of corporate America to become their own boss. But with companies slashing their payrolls in relentless rounds of layoffs, the innovators are more and more likely to be corporate castoffs like Lewis...
Social and economic decay are evident everywhere. Domestic airports look like refugee camps as stranded passengers keep weary vigil, hoping the state- owned Aeroflot airlines will soon resume flights canceled by a severe shortage of fuel and spare parts. With more than 8,000 wells standing idle, oil and gas production have dropped 10%. Life in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, a key industrial and defense center on the Chinese border, has almost ground to a halt because of dwindling food and heating...
...desertion rate is rising. Pay is so meager that soldiers have resorted to selling military equipment on the black market. Fuel shortages are so dire that many ships and submarines have been forced to return to their home ports. Planes, ships and tanks are being cannibalized for spare parts. Thousands of demobilized troops from Eastern Europe are stranded without adequate housing and benefits in shabby tent cities. Morale is at a nadir. "The military is absolutely shellshocked," says Dale Herspring of the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Center. "Cohesion is so destroyed that they couldn't mount a coup even...
Liam T.A. Ford '91-'92 is a beekeeper in his spare time. He dresses mostly in black, and a little yellow--no, make that orange...
...debate is framed now, that cannot be done; Rudenstine must either uphold University policy and cause students financial hardship or violate University policy and endorse a denial of students' civil rights. The Department of Defense forced this dilemma upon us; it would be wise for the new administration to spare itself and the community, and pass the dilemma right back...